Context: I'm an on-the-go music hoarder that loves listening to music, but doesn't exactly treasure the time needed to organize a collection. That said, my organizing principle revolves around listening to my baby ~250GB collection on a personal iOS app that I vibecoded (because Spotify sucks and the default Music app sucks). I mostly listen to music on random/shuffle and have maybe 10 reliable playlists, two or three of which are on regular rotation. My music directory looks like Artist/Album, and occassionally Weird_Collection/Artist/Album.

I just finished cleaning up my collection and am now designing my intake flow. Let's say I rip or download some tunes, these will go into a Staging folder wherein I'll tag them using Musicbrainz Picard, then upload to my phone, so Download -> Staging -> Tag -> Upload.

What flows do you use when acquiring new music?